Slave Labor is now offering some of their titles online for 69 cents an issue:
SLG is now offering some of its comics in digital format. Digital means that it’s fancy and futuristic. And also cheap! Only 69 cents per comic! Just go to our webstore, store.slavelabor.com, and choose “Downloadable Comic Books” from the drop-down menu at the top and you can choose from The Super-Scary Monster Show #1-3 and Emo Boy #1-2 (Emo Boy #1 is available as a PDF as well as a CBZ). We will be adding more titles soon–Pirate Club is up next.
Now, keep in mind that the files are in .cbz format (except for one PDF), and you will need comic book reader software to view them. We recommend CDisplay for Windows users and Comical for Mac users, though we cannot guarantee that they will work with your system. So do the smart thing and check them out before you go buying our digital comics. Which you will do of course.
This is a new venture for us, so please give us feedback here! We are here to learn.
The books can be bought in the Slave Labor web store.
Speaking of cheap comics, Fantagraphics is having a “summer” sale until the end of September.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
That’s great. It’s about time and $0.69? Now I’m expecting the others to follow suit.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Best news in all of this is that they’re using the cbz format which is so much better than PDFs.
No I guess that’s the second best news. I wish Marvel or DC would start offering something like this.
August 25th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
Screw Comical- use FFView for the mac. It’s a much better set up reader, very easy, and free.
August 25th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
That’s really REALLY cool! I really want digital comics.
For mac users, I also recommend FFView. But I often opt to extract the files and view them in photoshop instead.
August 25th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
I like FFView, but I still think that Jomic is the best of the Mac comic viewers, if only for how nicely it handles two-page spreads (and it’s open source, for those who get religious about such things).
As for Slave Labor, this is a wonderful decision. I could care less if DC and Marvel go this route — I want to see more indy publishers use this, if only to cut Diamond out of the loop.
August 25th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Neat! Time to download…
August 25th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
Nope.
Comics on paper don’t cause eyestrain and that almost subliminal tension that reading from a computer does. Plus I can’t read digital comics in the shower or the jacuzzi.
August 25th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
Bravo, SLC! I’ll be checking this out! And bonus points for using .cbz!
August 26th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
You know, I’m going to go buy one of these just to support their use of high quality easy to use CBZ format instead of some flash garbage.
August 26th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
I read comics on the computers and BOOKS anywhere else.
August 27th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
This is absolutely awesome, now if only they had an option to pay via paypal, I’d be set.
August 28th, 2006 at 9:41 am
I agree this is Awesome!
August 28th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
After much consideration, I think the word that best describes this development is, “awesome.” I believe I’m the first to use this most accurate of adjectives, and I’d like the credit please. Thank you.